Number 12

On the way up to the castle from lunch in the Adega after church - our usual Sunday lunch of bread and goat's cheese - off to Sem Fim in a bit for a bigger meal with whichever expats turn up; we're picking up a Swedish couple, and we know at least one Dutch couple will be there.

Gratefuls:
- a few drops of rain, hardly anything, but hoping there was more somewhere; almost all of Portugal is suffering extreme drought at present... no rain, no food, plus risk of fires
- that we've got plenty of firewood
- a doctor we know reversing in his fancy Jag back down the street to stop and chat to us